Communications Personals

NATOA Executive Director-General Counsel Steve Traylor retiring, effective in December; board moves up Tonya Rideout to transitional director, and she takes over as executive director "in the New Year" and tells us she also remains chief financial officer; Rideout will do a search for a new general counsel; and the association will also look for a new deputy director, a job Rideout also had done ... Among longtime staffers retiring from FCC are Geraldine Matise, chief of staff and associate chief, Office of Engineering and Technology ... Dorsey & Whitney adds from Winstead Brian Vanderwoude to Trial Group as partner, working on issues including intellectual property.